A Peer, More Top Docs and News Round Up

Readers who follow the ‘comments’ section of my blog will have noticed that my correspondent Richard Card has mentioned a man called Norman Warner a number of times. Warner is a former civil servant who worked in the DHSS with Secretary of State for Health and Social Security Barbara Castle back in the 1970s – Warner and Jack Straw were Castle’s advisors. Straw does make mention of his work with Warner and Castle at that time in his book ‘Last Man Standing’ – he stresses what a good team they made. Richard alleges that Castle, Straw and Warner continued a cover-up – one that originated with Sir Keith Joseph before them – over numerous deaths of children placed in a ‘care setting’ by Islington and Hackney between 1954-72. Richard also alleges that a former DHSS civil servant called Celia Hensman was involved in concealing wrongdoing back in the early 70s and that Keith Joseph blocked an inquiry into deaths of people in the care of the Sue Ryder organisation. Richard mentions that he was threatened with action under the Official Secrets Act in 1976 when he was suspected of having given information to ‘Panorama’ regarding the discharging of mental health patients homeless to seaside resorts. He also states that loopholes in the benefits system in the mid-70s were exploited by the IRA and that Kent Police Authority in 1997 called for an inquiry into the role of Jack Straw and Norman Warner regarding this. Jack Straw suppressed this call for an inquiry himself in his capacity as Home Secretary in 1997 – so Jack sat in judgement upon himself… After reading ‘Last Man Standing’ it doesn’t surprise me.

One thing that struck me as I investigated further after Richard contacted me, as I investigated the history of MIND and indeed struck me when I first investigated the history of the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, was what a very long history there has been of patients being abused and harmed by the NHS and social care system and of this being concealed at the highest levels. I was chatting to Brown about this and he observed that abuse and harm of patients was effectively built into the system from the very beginning.

I confess to having been a bit slow off the ground when Richard first mentioned Norman Warner – I had come across his name before regarding allegations of concealing wrongdoing, but it was so long ago that I presumed that Warner would now be dead or at least out of action. How wrong I was. Norman Warner – Lord Warner as he has been since 1998 – is still very much with us.

Warner describes himself as having been a ‘career civil servant’ since 1960. As mentioned above he was an advisor to Barbara Castle in the 70s – he was also Senior Policy Advisor to Jack Straw in 1997-98 when Straw was Home Secretary. Warner was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Dept of Health between 2003-07 and was Minister of State in the Dept of Health between 2005-07. He was Director of Social Services for Kent County Council 1985-91 and was Chair, City and East London Family Services Authority 1991-94.

OK – so Warner was in the higher echelons of Whitehall dealing with matters DHSS throughout the 60s and 70s. I bet he heard those allegations about the en masse sexual abuse of children in care in north Wales. Warner will also have been party to the grim activities of the mental health services during that period of time. His stint at the Home Office will have ensured that he knew about all manner of interesting things as well. Regarding his position as Director of Social Services for Kent – will they have been the same Social Services in Kent which were identified as having screwed up so badly in the case of Michael Stone at that time? As for Warner Chairing the City and East London Family Services Authority – scores of children in care from London boroughs, as well as from East London, were packed off to children’s homes in north Wales where they were abused. That continued into the 1990s.

This blog has provided numerous examples of people knowing about dung heaps being commissioned by Gov’t to lead investigations or inquiries into the said dung heaps on the basis that they can be relied upon to be critical enough for people to believe that the job has been done, but not so critical as to reveal just how deep and smelly the dung heap is. Two prime examples of such safe pairs of hands are of course dear old Professor Robert Bluglass and Sir Robert Francis QC, it’s why their talents were called upon so often. Well guess who Chaired the 1992 National Inquiry into the Selection, Development and Management of Staff in Children’s Homes? Norman did! This resulted in the Warner Report that was referred to in the Waterhouse Report. I have a sneaking suspicion that Norman knew that many of the staff in children’s homes were appallingly abusive long before he Chaired that Inquiry. Not that things got any better even after Warner published his Report – in 2014 Norman was appointed as the Commissioner to oversee improvements in Birmingham City Council’s Children’s Social Care Services, following a highly critical review. I had information about the serious problems in those services as long ago as the mid 1980s (see post ‘Amber Rudd, The Miners’ Strike And A Memory Jogged’). But who was one of the expert advisors to the Waterhouse Inquiry some ten years after I heard about those services? The former Director of City of Birmingham Social Services Adrianne Jones of course! Furthermore Adrianne utilised the Warner Report for her work with Waterhouse… As well as from the London boroughs, many of the children in care placed in the hands of the paedophile gang in north Wales came from the West Midlands.

Norman obviously knows that the NHS is crap because his solution is to privatise it. In 2013 he voted with the Tories and the Lib Dems in the Lords regarding proposed NHS regulations that Labour maintained would enable companies to bid for almost all health services. Warner was the only Labour peer to do so.

In 2009 Norman admitted to being a paid advisor for the General Healthcare Group and was also the Chairman of the NHS London Development Agency. He is a Director of Sage Advice Ltd and an advisor to Xansa and Byotrol – all companies that hope to sell services or products to the NHS. In addition Warner holds a position with Apax Partners, one of the leading private equity investors in healthcare.

Norman has been Chairman of the Youth Justice Board and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the think tank Reform. Reform likes to believe that it is coming up with fresh thinking and solutions, but it’s always seemed to me to be the Allyson Pollock of think tanks – it identifies real problems, it does know what’s going on, but it only tells half the story…

In Oct 2015 Norman resigned the Labour whip after having a hissy fit about Jeremy Corbyn. I’d take that as a compliment Jeremy…

Regular readers will know that I often end up very cross when various Top Doctors and their associates are wheeled out in the media to either tell barefaced lies, mislead the audience or to simply fail to mention a few uncomfortable truths. One serious offender in this regard is the ‘Today’ programme on Radio 4 – although it may be a case of me noticing the syndrome there because it’s one programme that I listen to virtually every day. It occurred to me that I could start delivering a new service for readers of the blog – every time that I hear one of these sinners, I could provide a little review. On Friday, whilst discussing the Mental Health Crisis that has existed for years but to which the UK has only just woken up, ‘Today’ interviewed Dr Susan Mizen, from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Susan sounded rather more contrite than the Top Doctors usually do – well what on earth can she say in the defence of her profession after recent revelations? So I did a bit of research on Susan.

Susan is a ‘Consultant Medical Psychotherapist and Jungian Analyst’ and is Chair of the Medical Psychotherapy Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She trained at the Cassel Hospital in Fulham and at the Society of Analytical Psychology. Susan worked as a Consultant Medical Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital. She now works in Exeter, where she provides a service for ‘severe and complex personality disorder’, along with a ‘therapeutic team using a psychoanalytic model’. Susan has a ‘longstanding interest in neuroscience and neuro-psychoanalysis’.

Now Susan may be a committed, ethical practitioner. But one reason why some psychiatrists find ‘psychotherapeutic psychoanalysts’ so useful if they are concealing wrongdoing is that they can pretty much explain away any misconduct on the part of practitioners no matter how serious it is in terms of the alleged internal psychological processes of their patients. For a splendid example of this, please read the details of the letter that Dr Alice Levinson at Springfield Hospital wrote about me in the wake of her and her boss Dr Robin Jacobson being faced with Dr Dafydd Alun Jones’s extraordinary comments over the phone to Jacobson, after which they concluded that he was sexually exploiting patients (see post ‘Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London…). Those two KNEW what Dafydd was doing – yet it was my alleged inner mental processes that were perceived to be the problem after I had complained about him. Furthermore although Jacobson documented his concerns about Dafydd’s and Dr Tony Francis’s (Dr X’s) misconduct, he then followed their recommendations to consult Lucille Hughes regarding ‘evidence’ of my ‘dangerousness’. That’s the Lucille who was Dafydd’s mistress, who a few years later was named in the Waterhouse Report as knowing that a paedophile ring was operating within Gwynedd Social Services whilst she was Director of those Services, but not taking any action. The Lucille who had never actually met me…Levinson now has a private practice in Richmond and supervises other therapists. The last I heard, Jacobson was working at the Priory in Roehampton.

I am not alone in having had such an experience. I have a good friend who had suffered gross abuse and neglect at the hands of the Hergest Unit who ended up spending a lot of money with a psychotherapist who was also a Jungian analyst after the Hergest Unit flatly refused to treat him after years of severe clinical depression. The therapist/analyst tied himself up in knots attempting to explain away the malpractice that my friend had experienced from the Hergest. My friend later discovered that this man had ‘trained’ along with some of those who worked in the Hergest Unit.

The use of the analyst’s ‘knowledge’ to facilitate their own wrongdoing whilst problematizing the patient – or others – seems to be well-established in psychoanalysis. I have discussed people like Andrew Skarbek previously on this blog (see post ‘One Dangerous Fucker), but I did read some years ago that some analysts themselves have identified that abuse of clients – particularly sexual abuse – is a big problem in psychoanalysis. I used to know a woman who was a Jungian analyst who told me the same thing – she also maintained that their conferences were notorious shagfests and that another very obvious syndrome was that of young female analysts being trained by much older influential male analysts which frequently led to somewhat exploitative sexual relationships.

Some months ago I read Leo Abse’s book on Margaret Thatcher, ‘Margaret, Daughter of Beatrice: Politician’s Psycho-biography of Margaret Thatcher’. Abse was a Labour MP who had a very big interest in psychoanalysis and came from a family with many connections in that field. When he first published that book there were a lot of allegations of misogyny levelled at Abse, but that wasn’t what I noticed most when I read it. Abse’s attempts at analysing Thatcher did throw up something which I haven’t noticed anyone else document – the effect that Thatcher’s grandmother had on her development. Much has been written about Thatcher’s idolisation of her father and her poor relationship with her mother, but throughout Thatcher’s childhood the family shared their accommodation with Thatcher’s grandmother, a Spartan Victorian character and Abse convincingly argues that she was the real formative influence on Thatcher. Yet it’s also clear that Abse uses analysis to excuse or justify rather unpleasant behaviour of his own. Of course, I knew something whilst I was reading Abse’s book that wasn’t known when he first published it – that Leo Abse was suspected of being a paedophile and indeed he was recently the subject of an historic abuse investigation by the police.

Susan Mizen seems to be trying in her work to combine neuroscience with her other interests. I’m not sure that is possible – for a start, the concept of a personality disorder is very much in the eye of the Top Doctor. The Hergest churned out people with that diagnosis for two reasons: A. The care was so poor that patients very often did not recover, so their continued distress was blamed on their putative ‘personality disorders’ – even though many of those patients had previously received different diagnoses from the Hergest itself or indeed received different diagnoses when they consulted practitioners elsewhere. B. That diagnosis was given to patients who dared complain in order to discredit them – and the Hergest Unit was shite, so a lot of people complained. The Hergest diagnosed so many people with ‘borderline personality disorder’ that I’m sure, like their suicide rate, it must have constituted a statistical outlier. It was an ongoing joke among some of the better practitioners in the area – ‘oh someone else with a borderline personality disorder’. I know one patient who was diagnosed as such by the dreadful Dr Marie Savage. This patient spent a while scrutinising DSM and pointed out to me that even by DSM standards the ‘criteria’ recorded by Savage herself didn’t fit the DSM criteria – Savage seemed to have conflated two different sub-types of personality disorder. This person was quite correct, but even if Savage had actually known what she was doing, the criteria for borderline personality disorder effectively simply describes a very distressed person who uses many of the strategies that people use these days to try and relieve that distress. Furthermore, many such behaviours attributed to BPD are the very behaviours induced in people if they are subjected to the sort of mistreatment routinely dished out by so many of the practitioners at Hergest and the associated mental health teams. No wonder so many people are suffering from it.

In the face of diagnostic problems like this, how can Susan Mizen ever hope to correlate the measurement of neurotransmitter levels with BPD diagnoses, which is what she seems to be interested in if the seminars and research promoted on the website on which she appears are anything to go by. I am referring here to the ‘Confer’ website, which states that it is ‘online continuing education for psychologists’. ‘Confer’ is an appropriate title – my own records, as well as those of other people who have managed to obtain theirs, shows that ‘conferring’ is exactly what is going on – derogatory letters about patients sent back and forth between Top Doctors, making a note of who has complained about whose mates and who has worked with who – ‘but Dr Jones trained at the Maudsley with Bob Hobson’, ‘Professor Bluglass investigated this complaint himself’. The sub-text is crystal clear – has this bastard complained about anyone that we have connections with? The diagnoses conjured up have far more to do with that than any alleged character traits or neurotransmitter levels.

The Confer website has a few other things of note too. As well as measuring neurotransmitter levels in people with BPD, another team took MRI scans of ‘people in love’, as well as ‘people who had just been dumped’. There’s no mention of whether MRI scans were taken of those who had done the dumping to assess them on the Confer Heartless Bastard Inventory.

Susan Mizen also features on the British Psychoanalytic Council website, where she is touted as being the NHS Consultant Lead for the Devon Personality Disorder Service (based in Exeter). Susan therefore presumably works in the south Devon NHS which is so troubled that last year their Chief Exec narrowly escaped a prison sentence, where a young mentally ill man ended up dying in police custody and where a nurse received the biggest compensation award that a UK whistleblower has ever received after being unlawfully dismissed by the CEO who escaped prison by the skin of her teeth (see post ‘NHS Chief Executive Collapses In Court After Being Spared Jail’).

Susan also compiles Court Reports, as do many of those named n shamed on this blog, including Dafydd and Robert Kehoe. The British Psychoanalytic Council website’s ‘latest news’ column is running a feature entitled ‘helping people affected by Grenfell Tower fire’. Perhaps Susan and her mates are finding them somewhere to live, because I think that’s their biggest problem.

I have also found a powerpoint presentation of Susan’s, ‘The Talking Therapies Taskforce – New Savoy Partnership’. Is the Savoy perhaps the name of the hotel where the partnership meets – after all Dr David Crossley always used to arrange for the training events of the All Wales Psychotherapy Network to meet in an agreeable hotel. So essential was the hotel to the success of the training that when the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board ran out of dosh to subsidise Crossley’s hotel-based training events, they stopped. Likewise the staff mindfulness training offered by the Bangor University Centre of Mindfulness Research and Practice is always held somewhere very agreeable, usually at Trigonos, a rather nice place in the Nantlle Valley. The service users’ mindfulness sessions however are held in a drafty canolfan (village hall) or a disused chapel somewhere….

Susan is currently researching for a PhD in neuroscience. She has set up a programme for patients who are ‘in locked in and secure hospital placements’ who present a high risk to themselves in terms of suicide. Susan is researching the ‘complexity of their difficulties’. What would make for a far better PhD is an in-depth exploration of the biographies of those patients and the processes by which they actually came to be ‘locked in’ and at risk of suicide…

Susan mentions that she works with people with ‘very severe narcisstic disorders in the NHS’. Whether they are staff or patients she does not clarify.

The ‘Today’ programme this morning also ran an interview with a Top Therapist, Phillip Hodson. Hodson was discussing sexual fetishes in the wake of viewers of a recent episode of ‘Poldark’ finding themselves unable to cope with a scene involving toe sucking. They hadn’t better read too much about recent Chinese history then, because Mao Tsetung had a foot fetish and used to suck the feet of his concubines – the feet in question easily fitted into his mouth, because the women involved had tiny deformed feet as a result of foot binding. Hodson describes himself as a psychotherapist and sex therapist – he is massively media friendly and has spent years sitting on morning TV sofas or appearing in women’s magazines and tabloid newspapers answering questions and proffering advice. Hodson’s website states that he has ‘lectured widely around the world’ to people including doctors, psychologists, counsellors and health professionals. Hodson is famous for urging everyone to ‘talk about it’ -especially men, because we know that they ‘bottle things up’ (not that we’d ever want to resort to gender stereotyping) and that is Not A Good Thing. Hodson runs a private practice in north London. He may be an excellent therapist himself, but like so many Phillip is not being that honest or helpful as he implores people to ‘talk about it’. Should they try and do so in an NHS context, the chances are that they will be in for a very rude awakening – there is unlikely to be a listening ear like Phillip available.

I know a man who when he was in his early 40s approached his GP regarding a sexual problem. It wasn’t related to anything unlawful such as paedophilia, it was much more mainstream – part of the problem involved a minor physical problem that was actually eventually resolved by circumcision and the other part of the problem involved obsessive thoughts concerning a fairly common fetish. This man was told by his GP that he had to have a referral to the mental health services at Ysbyty Gwynedd (this was in the months before the Hergest was built). He was met with naked hostility from the psychiatrist to whom he was referred who told him that he certainly wouldn’t be dealing with such problems, my friend would be referred to a sex therapist called Caroline Bertalot. Bertalot refused to see him unless he was admitted as an inpatient – although he hadn’t been referred as a mental health referral. He agreed to inpatient admission. He remained on the ward for three weeks – and eventually found out by accident that Caroline Bertalot had been in dispute with Gwynedd Health Authority and had left her post. No-one had told him – the psychiatrist who had referred him to Bertalot had been away and no nurses would interact with him on the ward because ‘you’ve got sexual problems and we’ve been told not to speak to you’. It got even more bizarre. The psychiatrist returned and the now desperate patient tried to talk to him to request a circumcision because he was regularly in agony and fairly sure that he had a physical problem. The psychiatrist actually yelled at him ‘will you stop talking about your willy’. The patient could not work out what was going on – eventually a junior doctor turned up, examined him and recommended a circumcision, which was done and did resolve the physical pain that this patient was in.

The patient then continued to try and get help for his psychosexual problems. I know this man well and what he endured at the hands of the Hergest Unit – which by now had opened – was quite extraordinary. They just could not handle sexual difficulties, none of them. There were two staff who were very skilled at working with girls and women who had been abused – although the elephant in the room was that Dafydd had spent years sexually exploiting patients and this was never acknowledged – but there was no service available at all for men. I told my friend years ago that I thought that this was something to do with the presence of the paedophile ring – they were facilitated by the mental health services and they targeted boys in care. Who grew up into men with sexual problems. No-one was going to provide a service because of what would be revealed. My friend used to tell me that I was a conspiracy theorist – but when the Jillings Report was finally released, there it was, an admission that there was no service at all in any part of north Wales for men with psychosexual problems.

My friend had many adventures in an attempt to gain help. He was referred to a nurse who believed that even oral sex ‘wasn’t normal’ and who was far too embarrassed to talk about the presenting problems. He was reviled by the psychiatrist who had referred to his penis as a ‘willy’ and many years later after gaining his records via the help of a lawyer showed me the craziest letters that had been written by this psychiatrist, stating that no matter how distressed my friend became he was not going to be offered psychosexual counselling.

So why did my friend continue with the Hergest Unit? Because they didn’t tell him that the psychiatrist had ordered a ban on psychosexual counselling – they instead told him that he had mental health problems and that they would treat him for them. My friend continued to explain very clearly that his depression, his anxiety and the way that he felt about himself was directly related to his sexual difficulties. He was ignored. He was sent to many of those named on this blog – Marie Savage, Professor Mark Williams et al – and got no help from any of them. He was instead constantly told that he had a ‘personality disorder’. Of course. Like me, he was subjected to malicious allegations that he had ‘threatened to kill’ staff. Like me, when he obtained his records, he was able to map the fallacious allegations made by members of the Arfon Community Mental Health Team as they became increasingly florid. A notoriously dreadful CPN called Tom Harney – known among patients as the ‘alcoholic alcohol counsellor’ – had initially claimed that my friend had threatened to hire a hit man and have him killed (yes, that was documented on the medical records). Within weeks Harney had upped the ante and was claiming that my friend had threatened to have Harney and his family killed – my friend didn’t know that Harney had a family, in the way that I didn’t know that Harney’s colleague Bridget Lloyd had any children when she told the police that I was a danger to her children. But then Dafydd told Bluglass that I’d used ‘foul and abusive language’ in front of his young children when I had no knowledge that any such young children of his existed.

Like me, for years my friend was either refused treatment, or treated for problems that he didn’t have after crazy inaccurate diagnoses had been made or was constantly arrested. Like me, once he obtained his medical records, he discovered that it was Dr David Healy who had ordered staff to have him arrested rather than treat him. It was actually the two of us together when we compared our records who finally concluded that after all we’d been through at the hands of the mental health services, it really wasn’t us that had been the problem. It was them – they were incompetent, they were malicious, they were punitive, they were dishonest and the thing that really screwed everything up was that they had been concealing a paedophile ring in the region and that had caused havoc.

My friend never ever managed to receive the sort of help that Phillip Hodson urges everyone to request from the ‘services’. He didn’t even ever manage to access it in the wider UK outside of north Wales – because everyone whom he approached conferred with the dear old Hergest who immediately denounced my friend as a complete git. One particularly unhinged Top Doctor wrote to another Top Doctor stating that my friend ‘destroys therapists’. It was they who very nearly destroyed him. Eventually my friend paid for private treatment, outside of the UK. That’s what he had to do to escape the toxicity of the paedophiles’ friends. But you won’t hear a word about that from Phillip Hodson.

Yet another Top Doctor featured on Radio 4 today on the ‘World At One’ – Simon Fishel. Simon Fishel was discussing fertility treatment and to what degree that it should be available on the NHS, in the wake of news reports that in many parts of the country the NHS is substantially withdrawing support for fertility treatment. One news report item this morning reported angry criticism from an organisation called Fertility UK. Unlike so many of those who staff the mental health services in north Wales, Simon Fishel is neither daft nor crackers. He has been involved with IVF from the very beginning and worked with Robert Edwards who pioneered IVF. We have moved a long way from what Edwards and Steptoe did – IVF is now big business and often a ruthless very unscrupulous business. Simon Fishel will be fully aware that some of the practices used by some of his colleagues are unethical – ‘treatments’ are knowingly being robustly promoted which everyone knows have a very low success rate and in some cases there is no clinical evidence at all for their use. For an account of the excesses involved in fertility treatment see post ‘The BMA And It’s Ethics’. As for Fertility UK – they are a marketing organisation. For details of those involved in Fertility UK, please see post ‘Professor Prestigious And His Associates’. Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe worked long and hard for many years on relatively modest salaries because they were motivated by scientific interest, as well as their desire to assist people with fertility problems. Many people owning fertility clinics are now multi-millionaire business people who’s aim is to maximise their profits. Simon Fishel is in a position to make a very valuable contribution to the debate, but he needs to be honest about some of what is going on.

It was refreshing to read the headline in ‘The Times’ today – ‘NHS Abuse Of Mental Patients ‘Endemic’. Yes, it is, no matter how much rubbish we hear from the Betsi or NHS unions about the Angels and Top Doctors being constantly at the mercy of dangerous psychiatric patients in the mood for murder. ‘The Times’ has published an utterly damning report which makes it quite clear that it is the patients who are being abused, assaulted and sometimes killed in mental health settings, not the staff. It was certainly a breath of fresh air, particularly as they stressed how much force and coercion that patients are regularly subjected to. Norman Lamb and Luciana Berger have both spoken in support of patients – but what has taken them so long? I note that the Dept of Health has issued a statement saying that ‘serious incidents remain rare across the NHS and our guidance makes clear restraint should only be used as a last resort’. The DoH knows as well as I do that they are telling porkies. There were hundreds of ‘serious incidents’ – involving deaths of mental health patients -in Southern Health NHS Trust alone in England. If we’re talking Wales, there’s a death associated with the dear old Betsi on an almost weekly basis. Since I have been writing this blog – for just over one year now – there have been two occasions on which there were media reports of the deaths of two psychiatric patients in one day in north Wales.

Neither is ‘restraint’ only used as a last resort – of course it is by good staff, but my experiences at the Hergest Unit and Parkhead Hospital Glasgow demonstrate that there are some staff who delight in ‘restraint’ and use it as an excuse to assault patients. A friend at the Hergest Unit witnessed the sexual assault of a young woman patient under the guise of ‘restraint’. The only reason why the DoH can claim that serious incidents are rare and that restraint is used as a last resort is that the DoH is relying on documentation compiled by the Top Doctors et al themselves – they have a habit of denying their own wrongdoing. All student teachers are taught that under no circumstances must they even touch a child – whereas student psychiatric nurses on placement witness their ‘mentors’ bullying and intimidating the people that they are paid to care for, shouting at them that if they ‘refuse medication’ they’ll ‘give it to them anyway’ and then witnessing the aforementioned ‘mentors’ pinning patients to the floor and ripping off their underwear to forcibly inject them with anti-psychotics. I know student nurses who have tried to report abuse even more flagrant than this – which is of course still actually legal – and they have been told off for using ‘strong words’ if they have dared mention ‘abuse of patients’ and have been asked if they’d ‘like to rephrase that’. (Note to student nurses in north Wales – if you are confronted with these techniques, which you probably will be should you report abuse of patients, refuse to ‘rephrase’ what you have witnessed and stand your ground. The NHS needs you far more than it needs clapped out old hypocrites like Grace Lewis-Parry who have spent their careers turning a blind eye to the most dreadful practices.)

I ended up purchasing a copy of ‘The Times’ to read the report regarding the violence of the Angels in detail and I was most surprised to see that Bangor University and the Vice-Chancellor Professor John Hughes were starring in ‘The Times’. There was a story about Professor Hughes’s house and that now notorious bedroom of his that was alleged to have been done up using Laura Ashley furnishings at great cost. I was reminded why I don’t usually bother with ‘The Times’ – everybody else reports the stories first. John Hughes’s bedroom was featured months ago in the ‘Daily Post’ and they even supplied a photo of a pastel room a la Contemporary Barbara Cartland, obviously presuming that John Hughes has a taste for pink boudoirs. ‘The Times’ also mentioned his salary and the fact that Bangor University staff are ‘facing redundancy’.

It seems to be open season on VCs at present, I think that the VC of Bolton started it all off with that ill-advised photo of him next to his Bentley, accompanied by his comment that students like being taught by someone with a Bentley. (Students actually like being taught by people who know their subject and take an interest in them – most students these days are taught most of the time by the more junior staff who rarely own Bentleys.) The Mail online published a really ferocious attack on Professor Craig Calhoun, the outgoing Director of the LSE, concerning the enormous amount of money that the LSE have given him. I sat next to Craig Calhoun at a conference dinner once amazingly enough and he was incredibly friendly and democratic and said ‘hi, I’m Craig’. I wasn’t quite sure how to respond, me being a research fellow from Bangor who’d only recently finished a PhD – it was a bit like being greeted by President Obama, what does one actually say? What was interesting about the Mail online savaging however is that they levelled it at Craig Calhoun rather than the new Director of the LSE – who I suspect will demand even more money than they paid Craig Calhoun, because she’s some sort of banker. Craig Calhoun is at least an internationally recognised sociologist and sociologists do not tend to be as greedy as bankers.

I usually take a very critical stance towards people who believe that they have a divine right to huge salaries, but whilst I worked at Bangor I noticed an Interesting Phenomenon. There was a big obsession among a lot of people with the alleged excesses of the then VC and a very obvious plan among some to bring him down. There were allegations of the owning of a Porsche – in reality for a long while he actually drove an elderly thing with a blowing exhaust which I think might have been a Saab. Then there were the allegations of a chauffeur -no, that wasn’t true either, a chauffeur did eventually appear some years later but it seemed to be a chauffeur shared between a number of the senior staff. Then there were the Vicious Rumours – these reached their height when the VC’s wife was terminally ill with a brain tumour at which time people were being told that he was virtually frequenting brothels. I never managed to find out who was at the bottom of it all, but the Vicious Rumours were certainly fuelled by some of the staff involved with nurse training and social care/social work – I watched that lot very carefully because as I’ve mentioned elsewhere not only had many of them earlier in their careers been involved in working with those who facilitated the paedophile ring, but they spread some pretty nasty lies around about me as well. Well I knew what they had bloody well been involved with didn’t I.

The paedophiles’ associates were unsurprisingly not among the highest performing staff in the University and they were very defensive about this. As the whole of the UK HE system became increasingly more obsessed with league tables and REF results, the paedophiles’ associates and others who had been in their posts for a long time but had done very little adopted a siege mentality and tried to destabilise the institution. At one point they seemed to go on some sort of unspoken strike. Virtually all their teaching and marking was being given to the postgrads to do, but the paedophiles’ associates didn’t do any research either. What made them so difficult to deal with was that they were past masters at shouldering the blame for their lack of effort or wrongdoing onto other people. After one of the RAEs, I sat in a departmental meeting in which the results were analysed, followed by the usual grilling of how can we do better next time. The person presenting the analysis was one of the Professors, who was one of the staff whose own work had been judged to be ‘internationally excellent’. The two old cows sitting in front of me – one of whom had not even been entered for the RAE and the other who had actually attempted to submit her contribution to a Welsh dictionary as an entry – spent the entire meeting tut tutting, remarking on how crap Bangor was, repeating ‘ofnadwy’ (‘awful’ in Welsh). Who had actually let the side down in the RAE? Those two. They were in terms of the RAE results, the two who were indeed ofnadwy.

There were other various techniques used to cause as many problems as possible, including ‘support staff’ – such as some of the librarians – who made it their goal in life to be as unsupportive as possible. Then there were the Finance Clerks Who Said Ni – if one was working on a grant application, the finance clerks who were employed to complete the staff costs etc constructed numerous hoops for the researchers to jump through before they would agree to help and then once one had jumped through all the hoops they refused to help with the application anyway. When I first encountered the Finance Clerks Who Said Ni, I presumed that they just wouldn’t help me because I was junior and unknown. But one day I witnessed a well thought of Professor (not a git, a really nice man) ask for assistance with his grant bid and one of the Finance Clerks Who Said Ni simply returned his notes straight back to him and said ‘you’ve got to fill in all the costs’. So the more enthusiastic academic staff were doing the teaching, writing the publications, writing the bids – and then doing the job of the finance clerks and battling around the library with bugger all assistance as well. Which made for a great deal of work. Whilst those we know and love did bugger all.

After watching all this for a few years, I began to wonder whether the VC’s salary actually represented a sort of compensation payment for all the shit that was thrown at him and the attempts to undermine him. Everyone KNEW that scores of the staff who had previously worked in the region as Angels, social workers, clinical psychologists etc had worked in close proximity to those who perpetuated the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal, but no-one actually mentioned it. I know that in all institutions the boss is a target, but Bangor University – like the whole of north Wales – was living with the legacy of the paedophile gang and it certainly showed in the parts of the institution that employed former health and social care practitioners. The nursing tutors and social work teaching team were highly dysfunctional and the most appropriate course of action would have simply been to dismantle them – but whenever anyone tried to broach the problem that they were, there’d be a wailing and a gnashing of teeth and accusations that the University authorities were launching an attack on those who care…The psychology dept was also very dysfunctional but in a different way (see post ‘He’s Not The Messiah, He’s A Very Naughty Boy’) – but that too employed people who had worked and still did work as mental health practitioners in a grossly abusive service…

There was one person at Bangor who knew that those we know and love were trying to render the institution unmanageable, who was actually fantastically supportive to researchers whom he knew were keen. That was an historian, Professor Duncan Tanner. Sadly Duncan died – suddenly, years before his time, just when he was doing so much for the University. He died as a result of a cock-up at Ysbyty Gwynedd that should never have happened.

From what I gather, the problems at Bangor are greater than ever now – the paedophiles’ associates linked up with their partners in crime in the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and now claim to be conducting world beating ‘health and social care research’ – which they very obviously are not. That Board is in special measures and is under investigation for the abuse of mental health patients. If John Hughes needs to make a few people redundant, he doesn’t have too look to hard to find a few whose services could be dispensed with – although knowing the way of the world, those we know and love will do what they have always done, sit tight and engage the help of UCU whilst the junior staff who are on short term contracts will be the ones who’ll get the chop – or the folk from humanities, on the grounds that ‘healthcare research’ is just too important to be cut… After all, the paedophiles’ associates know that nobody else will employ them no matter how rude they are about Bangor.

‘The Times’ today featured a Top Therapist as high profile as Phillip Hodson – Professor Tanya Byron. Tanya is a Clinical Psychologist who describes herself as a ‘clinician, journalist, author and broadcaster’ who works with ‘psychological and emotional issues’. Tanya is Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Edge Hill University – she is also their Chancellor. Tanya appears on TV constantly and specialises in tackling what is alleged to be difficult behaviour in children. As with Phillip Hodson, I have known for years that being someone who trained as a Clinical Psychologist, Tanya will be fully aware of just how dire and abusive mental health services are – although that never gets a mention in any of Tanya’s media offerings. I knew that one of Tanya’s parents was a big figure in the media world – that tends to be the case with BBC ‘experts’, despite their ‘expertise’ there’s often a family connection to the media that helped them along – in fact her dad is the film and TV director John Sichel. I had always presumed that Tanya had acquired her qualifications and then headed straight for the BBC -but I found out today that she did actually work as a Clinical Psychologist in the NHS for 18 years, working with drug addiction and mental health problems. So Tanya will definitely know the gory reality then. I note that Tanya did her MSc in Clin Psy and her PhD at UCL – the UCL that has featured so often on this blog in terms of the concealing of the shite… The UCL that is also host to some very influential well-connected people who are in a good position – and have good cause – to conceal the shite.

Tanya has undoubtedly joined the ranks of the Concealers of the Shite herself now – she has worked with the Home Office and in 2007 was commissioned by Gordon Brown to lead an investigation into the effect on children of video games and the internet. Gordon probably should have commissioned her to provide an honest analysis of the practices and effectiveness of the mental health services.

One of Tanya’s less well-received media contributions was ‘The Life and Times Of Vivienne Vyle’, a spoof based on the dreadful Jeremy Kyle. Tanya stated that it’s aim was to be a ‘black comedy with pop psychology at the root’. Tanya is not as offensive as Jeremy Kyle, but her offerings are merely a more up-market form of pop psychology – and she’s no more honest than Kyle.

Tanya has presented ‘All In The Mind’, the weekly pack of lies that Radio 4 broadcasts about the mental health services. I look forward to hearing how Claudia Hammond deals with the latest revelations regarding the reality of the UK mental health system – for years now Claudia et al have given no clues at all that there are any shortcomings on the part of the Top Doctors.

Another media figure who’s keeping schtum about the practices of the Top Doctors is comedian Harry Hill. Harry Hill is a Top Doctor himself – he trained at St George’s Hospital Medical School and then did a stint in neurosurgery in London. Hill has stated that he gave up medicine because he ‘didn’t feel in control of what was happening’. I bet he didn’t. I would imagine that Harry Hill witnessed some dreadful things which is why he waved them all a not-so-fond farewell – but even though he now works as a comedian and has done so for years, he’s still keeping the Top Doctors’ vow of silence…

The news reports from north Wales are telling of a hoard of drugs and cash that has been seized by police in Conwy and in Mold a man had his throat slit in an act of revenge over a drugs debt. So Dafydd, Lucille and CAIS are still doing a fantastic job tackling ‘substance misuse and associated problems’ in north Wales then – it’s what the Welsh Gov’t give them millions for.
The Daily Post was emblazoned with screaming headlines a few days ago concerning 22 year old Hannah Turtle from Flintshire who has been charged with murdering her seven week old baby by poisoning him with anti-depressants. If that wasn’t a big enough clue that this will turn out to be another tale of tragedy at the hands of the mental health services, it was reported that Hannah’s previous address had been given as Llanarth Hospital in Abergavenny, but at her most recent Court appearance she was stated to be of no fixed abode. OK – new mother with depression left to cope without sufficient support, ends up killing her baby, only after that is she admitted to hospital, but now she’s out again, discharged as homeless and facing a murder charge…

The Daily Post and BBC News Wales online are also very excited about the trial of two police officers at Caernarfon Crown Court for attempting to pervert the course of justice – one of them is also on trial for assault. The details coming out from the trial points to a great deal of misconduct. PCs James Burns and Robin Humphreys arrested Michael Stanley in Penrhyndeudraeth. Fortunately for Mr Stanley – who was later charged with assaulting a police officer, criminal damage to a police car and a public order offence – a body camera being worn by another police officer filmed his arrest. The footage was played to the Court and showed Burns grabbing Mr Stanley by the throat and spraying pepper spray in his face whilst he was handcuffed in the back of a patrol car. After Burns and Humphreys returned to the station, they both lied in their statements. The charges against Mr Stanley were ‘discontinued’ last summer – no doubt when it was revealed that his arrest had been filmed. The Daily Post reports that Mr Stanley was known to the police’ and is a ‘prolific offender’. His previous convictions consist of very similar offences to those which have now been ‘discontinued’. Perhaps no-one was wearing a body camera when he was arrested then. I used to know Jimmy Burns – many years ago he worked as a nursing assistant at the Hergest Unit. His colleagues at Hergest were all very keen for him to undertake nurse training because they thought that he was so good – but he wanted to join the North Wales Police. If he’s found guilty as charged – actual bodily harm, common assault and attempting to pervert the course of justice – I’m sure that Martin Jones could find him another job at the Hergest. After all, Martin was one of the managers at Ysbyty Gwynedd when Burns was employed by them previously – and I think that Dr Peter Higson, the current Chair of the Betsi, was still employed as one of the senior managers of the mental health services in north Wales at the time.

Now that symbol of neoliberal penality, HMP Berwyn, is up and running in Wrexham – thanks to Hywel Williams MP and David Hanson MP begging for this monstrosity in north Wales – the Welsh Gov’t wants to flog off a bit more of Wales to the Home Office to build yet another prison, this time in Port Talbot. It would seem that the residents of Port Talbot are not quite as easily duped as the residents of north east Wales and people in Port Talbot are objecting. I’m glad that somebody is, I’m not quite sure why so many politicians in Wales are so in love with the notion of locking up thousands of dispossessed people with mental health and drug problems – particularly in the wake of the admissions of just how serious the problems are in UK prisons. It was only last week that there were riots…

There is also trouble at t’ mill in Bangor – ‘Sports Direct’ ordered all their staff to speak English only ie. NOT WELSH. It wasn’t a very good idea, has caused an enormous row and now the Crack of Doom aka Meri Huws the Welsh Language Commissioner has entered the fray (for info on Meri see posts ‘Let Me Enlighten Lord Gnome…’ and ‘Local Accessories’). Meri will only make things worse. The most sensible course of action would be for the Welsh Gov’t to sack Meri and reinvest the money that they have been wasting on her inflated salary into organising a boycott of ‘Sports Direct’. Mike Ashley will worry far more about losing money than he will about receiving silly letters from Meri.

Author: Sally Baker

I am a writer and a sociologist, originally from Somerset, but I’ve been based in Wales for most of my life. I had my first encounter with a mental health professional in 1984 at the age of 21. My GP described this man to my then partner – who also became a sociologist – as someone who had experienced ‘considerable success’. My meeting with this psychiatrist was a disaster and we attempted to complain about his insensitivity and highly inappropriate behaviour. That was the first time we were threatened and pressurised to withdraw a complaint against a mental health professional. This man is long dead – he was a retired psychiatrist from the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, T. Gwynne Williams, who was working shifts in the student health centre at University College of North Wales (now Bangor University). We discovered years later that this ‘successful man’ was notorious – he had been an enthusiastic lobotomist…

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had in fact been contacted by HM Coroner Bury St Edmunds about the history of Beeches child care deaths and the Sue Ryder Home deaths that you mention.

Perhaps Chiefie was not mindful of the common law duty to report facts to HM Coroner that may cause an inquest ?

1991 Sir John Stradling Thomas MP died at his Dolphin Square Home. He had been writing to Police Minister Ferrers and attorney general Patrick Mayhew about both my concerns Sue Ryder Cavendish deaths 1972 and the Welsh Regional Crime Squad inquiry 1971 72 into death registration malpractice and identity theft in Sue Ryder and Leonard Cheshire Homes. 71/72 This was at the time Sue Ryder and her charity trustee Airey Neave were “Releasing” 1200 men from purported post war German internment. The Welsh RCS Det sgt defied Special Branch threats and copped a suicide verdict.

About Spring 1992 the ex RCS Dc was document burgled at a time he was being threatened by Gwent Special Branch to keep quiet. These threats had been going for some time ever since Sir John Stradling Thomas MP took up the case history 1990.

I wrote to Suffolk Chief constable Spring 1992 to ask him to liaise with his Gwent counterpart re burglary of the ex RCS Dc and to be aware Sue Ryder had asked press to prepare obituaries for Leonard Cheshire. I suggested she was shroud waving as East Anglian Daily Times journo Phil Wisdom had found out Cheshire’s prognosis was not terminal. In fact he had notified he wished to attend 93 Dambusters memorial and that he would need no special medical support by that stage. Anyway Summer 92 and Cheshire died of a heart attack on Ryders schedule.

So I am reconstructing, for Suffolk PCC (Not that he wants me to) what was in the Chief constable noggin when he went out forelock tugging to Henniker in 1992. Henniker BTW Stowe School with Cheshire. Henniker SOE Cairo and Popskis Private Army etc and Sue Ryder SOE.

I don’t know if Sir John Stradling Thomas MP death was suspicious or not. But it prevented him raising parliamentary ombudsman inquiry into handling of his correspondence to Ferrers and Mayhew. Which would have been an additional complication for Suffolk Chief constable bending his knee to Henniker.

In 2015 Suffolk PCC and Chief constable should have reported implications of Sir John’s death at Dolphin Square to Operation Midland but the wee rascals kept it quiet.

1992 Islington MP Jeremy Corbyn told about abuse and elects to keep quiet Islington Council leader Margaret Hodge moves on. Her replacement Sawyer was a long term associate and business partner of Derek Slade of the abusive St Georges School Finborough Suffolk.

Peter Righton moved to home of Islington Suffolk project the Henniker estate in Suffolk. Righton the paedo associate of Dr Morris Fraser hence flagging up KINCORA. But hadn’t KINCORA flagged as early as 1967 re Lord Henniker and the arming of TARA and Red Hand Commando.

Fraser had faced GMC in 1974 after child abuse convictions and been allowed to continue practicing, Legal Officer for GMC at hearing was Patrick Mayhew later Attorney General and Northern Ireland Secretary.

That seems to be the gist of the opening that disappeared in the ether

Thanks for these latest leads Richard. The name of Dr Morris Fraser, the paedophile doctor who was protected by the GMC, was given to me a few days ago – I didn’t know about him previously. The Islington article is very interesting. So many of those idiotic Councillors who allowed children in care to be abused have ended up in posts with ‘disability rights’. I have always wondered whether Jeremy Corbyn knew what was happening in the Islington homes – Jeremy is nothing like the dreadful Margaret Hodge but he does have a record of hoping for the best from people who are probably not going to give it.
I’ll do a bit of research on all these leads, esp Patrick Mayhew, didn’t realise that he had a GMC connection.

This pdf is fantastic, many thanks. There’s a lot to follow up in here. A few quick comments – so the GMC knew that Fraser had been convicted of sexual assault on boys but continued to let him practice as a child psychiatrist – business as usual at the GMC then. So Fraser after his conviction for child abuse worked as a psychiatrist at Springfield Hospital and UCL! Now there’s a surprise. Fraser blamed the 13 year old boy whom he assaulted for seducing him! Well Dafydd told those crooks at Springfield that I was ‘attractive and seductive’ – and the crooks at Springfield announced that I was the problem! There are many similarities between Fraser’s case and Dafydd’s – in that no-one could claim that they ‘didn’t know’ – they definitely did and the victims were blamed every time. Furthermore the media and other psychiatrists continued to praise Fraser as an expert and work with him – as they did with Dafydd. Dafydd had a hotline not only to S4C, but also to certain BBC productions including Kilroy and the Vincent Kane Show – that was in the 90s when the whole bloody world knew what Dafydd was up to. Who got Dafydd on Kilroy? Vincent Kane was a BBC Wales thing and local, all sorts of folk turned up on Vincent Kane, but how did Kilroy get to hear about Dafydd as an ‘expert’? Much more latterly I was told that Dafydd’s charity CAIS was providing the ‘after care’ for some of those who had appeared on the Jeremy Kyle show. It is all utterly utterly sleazy – unscrupulous disgraced Top Doctors well-known for abusing their position being feted by the national media. Someone must know the identities of the people behind this.
I note that Fraser was involved with an ‘alternative’ school in Italy that was actually being run by someone with Mafia connections. It’s not the Mafia, but back in the 80s and 90s there was a Steiner School in Porthmadog at which some seriously weird things were going on and in which some seriously unsuitable people were employed. I knew a few hippyish people who sent their children there. There were at least two kids in that school whose family members were sexually abusing other and were known to be doing so by the corrupt Jo Bott, former police officer and ‘safeguarding’ person for Gwynedd Social Services. A friend of mine withdrew her children from the Steiner School when she discovered that after school they were all going over to the house of another pupil where that pupils father encouraged them to get naked and ‘play games’. There is one former teacher of that school who ended up having a sexual relationship with one of her former pupils – he was by that time 18, but it is I think a little odd for a woman in her early 60s to be having sex with an 18 yr old boy whom she taught from the age of 6.

Regarding Dolphin Square – that was the name of the building that was of course bandied around in the media a couple of years ago as the location of paedophile parties attended by MPs. Of course it was all pooh-poohed as fantasy by a number of high profile political figures. But interestingly enough addresses in Dolphin Square have now cropped up in my own research, about three times. A number of the people whom my investigations revealed were definitely concealing child abuse had apartments there. I was also sent info from a journalist who told me that Dolphin Square was definitely one of the locations to which the kids in north Wales were being trafficked and used for sex – Nefyn Dodd, the highly abusive manager of Ty’r Felin home in Bangor, was in direct contact with an aide of Thatchers who had a place in Dolphin Square, that was the north Wales connection. Of course a number of political figures lived in Dolphin Square, they won’t all have been involved in the abuse, but some of them like Sir John might have known about it and been threatening to ask for an inquiry – as you have previously suggested that Sir John might have before he was found dead.
It is difficult to access hard facts and evidence about the Westminster Paedophile Ring which is why so little has been admitted by the authorities – but what is not in dispute is the appalling mistreatment of people with various types of disabilities who have died in great numbers, only for each scandal to be followed by cover-up after cover-up by politicians from all parties at the highest levels. Politicians who often seem to have been involved in robustly denying organised child abuse…

It’s great receiving info from you because you have first hand experience of events that happened before my time – but I note that all those people who were in junior roles directly involved in concealing the events that you were a witness to in the 70s were later in very senior positions in the 80s and 90s, where they covered up yet more barrels of crap, some of those being the ones that I witnessed! This is why history is so important – it’s not sufficient to dismiss it all as ‘a long time ago’, one can trace not only patterns and methods of operation, but simply track who worked for who and in what capacity. And where a lot of those paths lead is to people who are now in the Lords or other influential positions covering up a load of crap or appointing other people who will do that…

The fact remains that Sir Keith Joseph and his fob off inquiry (Based laughably on the assumption local authority institutionalised care was a model against which to measure the private Beeches.

The fact is in 1972 Matron McGill of Sue Ryder Cavendish was reported drowned in the home lake in January 1972. An inquest in secret within Sue Ryder Home recorded a suicide verdict 3 days later. Mary McGill was a New Zealand citizen volunteer. In February 1972, while minister Sir Keith Joseph was failing to answer her complaints, a UK friend of Matron McGill went to the New Zealand High Commission. This lady had phoned Sue Ryder Home the day after the secret inquest. The telephone receptionist revealed unwittingly that Ryder was aware of the death during the night of 21 22 January 1972. Then Ryder came on the line to bollock the phone girl but did not realise she was talking “Exchange held” so Matron’s friend heard the whole thing.

There was evidence of mass perjury at the secret inquest in fact.

Matron’s brother and NOK was a wartime colleague of Charles Littlejohn who by 1972 was senior legal officer New Zealand Govt. The Suffolk McGill Decd case went before NZ PM.

In March 1972 the High Commission was directed to approach Home Office to re-open the Suffolk inquest into Matron McGill Decd. In April 1972 the Suffolk Chief constable with Home Office lied in a report to NZ Govt. This in fact took NZ Govt beyond 3 months limitation to seek Judicial Review.

I, of course, had no idea this was going on. I had refused the DI attempt to order me to destroy Matron McGill’s clothes and footwear to prevent forensic. My feet as a rookie constable did not touch after that and I resigned 3 months later at the time, I now know, Suffolk Chief constable was lying to NZ Govt.

Plugging into this timeline the actions of the police surgeon GP makes scary reading. Increased the “Asthma preventer” steroid. Gave anti depressants too. As you know it ended up with referral to Beresford Davies who I now know was in private practice. But as consultant at Fulbourne he was also, I now know, consultant over a Sue Ryder volunteer who did the major part of perjuring to the McGill Inquest. This man was a student at Christs Cambridge and ended up with a post at Aberystwyth Uni.

IE It is clear I survived an attempt to section me. But nonetheless was set up to be classified judgment flawed due to depression due to stillbirth bereavement and becoming too aggressive to be reliable as a police officer. Presumably the Chief constable could have said if asked this is why he concealed the NZ Govt approach from me and concealed my dissenting role from NZ Govt.

And all along the jurisdiction between commonwealth countries was judicial cttee privy council.
In July 1972 Barbara Castle shadow minister raised the McGill case in the Commons and shortly after that inmate at Sue Ryder Cavendish Stefania Bronk died facedown in her bath, another hasty suicide verdict. It was Clare funeral director who told me, I had resigned in April 72, in July 72 that Suffolk Police were threatening him to keep quiet about the Bronk death. I told press and reported the facts to Sir Keith Joseph.

I now know that a New Zealand investigator John Blackie visited UK around Nov Dec 1972 and found a volunteer aide of Sue Ryder Cavendish Jan 1972 who said he was with Matron McGill when she died. He tried to get into the inquest inside Sue Ryder Home 3 days later but was physically removed by Suffolk Police.

Keith Joseph deflected and covered up both Beeches and Sue Ryder matters.

And as you allude to in spite of her driving role in 1972 when Barbara Castle became DHSS minister 1974 she sustained Keith Joseph’s cover up. She used OSA to try to shut me up about discharging mental patients homeless to Margate (Panorama) and the questions are still unanswered what she did about the IRA system for defrauding DHSS benefits. The IRA frauds is the question that came back to haunt Warner and Straw during MacPherson Inquiry when Kent Police Authority called for inquiry and report.

Re the Privy Council – I was told ages ago that too many of those involved in concealing child abuse were members of the Privy Council for it to be a coincidence. I have noticed that many whom I’ve named on this blog as being involved in the cover-up are indeed members of the Privy Council, although I haven’t highlighted that on the blog – as with being graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, there are so many falling into that category that I’d never have time to get the blogging done if I went into it in detail. However, what I was interested to note was the identity of one of the high profile Human Rights lawyers who works with the Privy Council, Lord Gifford. Gifford has made his reputation by representing prisoners on death row in places like Jamaica – the appeals against their death sentences are handled by the Privy Council. I know someone who for years has been involved in campaigning for those prisoners and she knows Lord Gifford – he has done some sterling work in that area. But like so many other leading radical lawyers eg. Michael Mansfield, Gifford has never touched cases involved with organised child abuse/abuse in psychiatry and he is close to other ‘radical lawyers’ who are associated with those Top Doctors et al who’ve been involved in the cover-up. Michael Mansfield has an impeccable reputation – but he has worked closely with both Helena Kennedy and Patricia Scotland, both of whom I have had cause to blog about re institutional cover-ups of abuse of psychiatry and organised child abuse. People like Gifford and Mansfield must know what’s being going on, lawyers have a splendid system of jungle drums.

Michael Mansfield does not have an impeccable reputation. His charity British Irish Rights Watch misled Rosemary Nelson tribunal. He and Imran Khan and the Lawrences knew Straw and Warner were corrupting MacPherson Inquiry and went along with it. And the cover up extended to suppression of Kent Police Authority call for inquiry into mercenaries who attacked Mandela Regime. These included the vile child rapist Parker twins of Nuneaton who Straw protected from interview under caution.

After the Horst Kopkow PRO release impeccable intelligence sources briefed specialist journos that the Sue Ryder and Leonard Cheshire charities were always suspected of being assets of the Vatican ratlines. So the 1971 Airey Neave and Sue Ryder “Release scheme” of 1200 men from purported postwar German internment was suspect for bring Nazi war criminals to UK and providing them identities via death registration malpractice. As you have read above the Regional Crime Squad in Wales latched on to this and escalated inquiry. Special Branch threatened them. The RCS Det sgt defied them and died getting a suicide verdict. MI5 came to Gwent 1972 and were given the RCS case file. Twenty years later, after I met the surviving RCS ex DC in Gwent, either MI5 or a new Scotland Yard war crimes unit again deployed to Gwent and was trawling RCS records. While these spooks were in Gwent there was a bizarre burglary of the Registry Office, Gold Tops, Newport stealing all Newport BMD records.

At the time Judge Stonehouse was at Newport Crown Court on a murder case (Murder of a betting shop manageress) and he had a spook minder too !

After the Horst Kopkow PRO release a Sunday paper wanted to publish. I withdrew when it became clear they wanted to hide their intelligence sources and attribute the ratlines suspicion to me. Also when I learned the report was to describe Leonard Cheshire and Airey Neave as “True patriots”. I withdrew and nothing got published.

The “IRA asset acquiring info of use to Soviet” in Suffolk was looking at Neaves Sue Ryder charity HQ Cavendish and the Clement Freud social scene at Walberswick. The only connection leaping to my mind was that Freud and Neave were both on the British team at Nuremberg war crimes trials. It appears that me as a rookie constable had sussed in 1971 72 a lot more than the Suffolk Police command ever did. It is worrying that the Home Office could tell Chief constable to take me down and then police surgeons and a tame but paid psychiatrist had a damned good try at it.

The law says I remain a sworn constable in the duties charged unto death. I was the properly appointed HM Coroners Officer to Matron Mary McGill. And my duty is not yet discharged faithfully and only unto law.

Mental Health was used to discredit Holroyd another chap who had crossed Airey Neave. In the film by Ken Loach “Hidden Agenda” Neave is portrayed as an MP “Alex Nevan”. Once again Neave, Kincora and right wing plots to overthrow Harold Wilson.

At some point Dr Morris Fraser was researching the psychosomatic trigger for child asthma. The same psychopathology bullshit as Ipswich Family Psychiatric Centre which is now an historic institution before Independent Inquiry Child Sex Abuse.

In Australia the Ipswich Suffolk psychobabble was used by psychiatrists to engage asthmatic children in “Play therapy” which was in fact full bown child sexual abuse.

Richard – as you have knowledge of the dirty tricks in N Ireland, I’m wondering if you have any info on those young people who in the late 1980s received substantial prison sentences for plotting terrorist activity when all they were effectively doing was camping near Tom Kings country residence? There was bugger all evidence that they were up to no good, they were the most unlikely people to ever have been recruited by the IRA and there was disbelief when they were jailed. But there was never a long fight to clear there names as there was with the Birmingham Six etc – so I presumed that they remained in prison…

Did not know that about Michael Mansfield, just knew that he seemed to be keeping quiet about a lot of matters. Two more of his associates who were questionable were his former pupil Constance Briscoe who was so obviously dodgy and who was eventually jailed for perjury and of course old Arthur Scargill, with whom Mansfield was mates and established a new left wing alternative to the Labour Party which eventually died a death. Arthur Scargill spoke in Bangor about four years ago and I was gobsmacked to find that the man who was the gofer for Scargill – setting up the stage, getting the microphones ready etc – was someone known to me from my Bethesda days, a man whose extended family had not only been involved in child abuse themselves but who had colluded with corrupt doctors, councillors and the child protection team to fleece a vulnerable man. Another one of this families victims – the former boyfriend of their daughter and father of her baby – was killed in questionable circumstances after he fell foul of them and their corrupt contacts in Gwynedd Social Services. I wondered what the hell this bloke was doing hosting Arthur Scargill and I then found out that he had re-married a lady who was a candidate in the forthcoming election for Scargill’s party!
Airey Neave seems to have been involved in some unpleasant stuff – I keep coming across his name…

You mentioned the case of the murder of a betting shop manageress in S Wales. Reminds me of the wrongful conviction of Wayne and Paul Darvell for the murder of sex shop manageress in Swansea – they stayed in prison for years after being fitted up by S Wales police. Unusually, it was a psychiatrist whose evidence actually helped clear them…The investigation into police corruption that followed was a substantial one, but I don’t know if any officers were ever convicted.

I do not know about the convictions of youths re Tom King late 80s. It is an interesting time to me though. I wonder if these were Wiking Jugend types ? Like the Roger Gale MP backed private cadets Kent Adventure Training Corps.

It appears Corbyn is implicated as much as other politicians and has been challenged over what he knew about abuse in Islington care homes. The hard left of the 1970’s associated openly with PIE who used Liberty to further their campaign to lower the age of consent. Gerry Adams brother is a convicted paedophile.

Thanks for the link to John Mann’s letter Mike. John has been campaigning on this matter rather more robustly than other politicians – some of his speech’s to the House are available on You Tube, he is very impressive and has got a good grasp of what was going on. What happened in Islington was terrible, absolutely dreadful – neither is Jeremy Corbyn the only high profile politician who has crap all over him because of the paedophile ring in Islington. The reason why New Labour moved heaven and earth to carry on the cover up was that Blair, Margaret Hodge and many members of Blair’s inner circle were all Islington Councillors when the paedophile ring was in operation in Islington children’s homes. They were indeed utter idiots, whilst they and others in the inner London boroughs played games with identity politics organised criminals took over their children’s homes.
The reality is that NO political party was prepared to admit what had happened in children’s services right across the UK. In north Wales, the cover-up was orchestrated by the Tories in the Welsh Office but local Plaid politicians on the ground in north Wales covered up at that level. Labour MPs in north east Wales knew what was happening and kept quiet too. The Lib Dems weren’t interested in exposing it all because of the likes of Cyril Smith and his activities. You know me well enough to know that I am a leftie – but I cannot defend the many politicians who I would naturally be inclined to vote for after their cover up. They were prepared to watch people like me die or go to prison for crimes that we had never committed.
For a while I pinned my hopes on Welsh Labour – they saw Wales suffer at the hands of the Tories who orchestrated the high level cover up in the 80s and 90s and they hated Blair’s lot. But look what I blogged about last night – Mark Drakeford, Jane Hutt et al were pathetic, hypocritical former social workers who knew what was happening as well and just couldn’t bring themselves to condemn their former colleagues. And the civil service in Wales was being ‘advised’ by some of those who had covered up the paedophile gangs when they ran local authorities.
No political party comes out of this with clean hands. There are a small number of individual politicians who do who are drawn from across the spectrum – Geoffrey Dickens (Conservative), John Mann (Labour) and David Bellotti (Lib) who tried to help Mary Wynch. In Wales Edwina Hart took them on – Edwina’s battle was with the Top Doctors over the NHS but it was the Top Doctors and their allies who had concealed the paedophile ring who were determined to get rid of Edwina. They couldn’t risk new blood going into north Wales and uncovering what they had been up to. They successfully got rid of Edwina and she was replaced by Lesley Griffiths. Lesley was a former secretary at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, so she will have known just how fucking bad the Top Doctors were and I hoped that she’d take them on like Edwina did. She didn’t. But of course Lesley had also been a Councillor in Wrexham, it was Wrexham Council who knew about the paedophile gang on it’s patch and did nothing.
It is a truly dire situation. People have died at the hands of the criminals behind it all and our elected representatives are either wetting themselves with fear or have their noses stuck in the trough and are living very comfortable lives in return for their silence. Meanwhile, the gangs behind it all in the 80s have evolved into organised people traffickers with international connections.
I was chatting to a friend the other day who had been a victim of this lot back in the 90s. He told me that he didn’t think that there would be any point in putting Dafydd Alun Jones on trial now, because Dafydd is in his 80s and won’t last much longer – my friend thinks that Dafydd et al should just be named n shamed. Which is what I have done on this blog. There are indeed too many people involved in the cover up to prosecute – no-one is ever going to put Drakeford, Jane Hutt or Helena Kennedy on trial. But there are some people who should stand trial – the paedophile gang in north Wales murdered some of the witnesses. In my own case, people perjured themselves and forged documents – it is serious stuff. Unlike my friend, I believe that Dafydd Alun Jones, Lucille Hughes, DGE Wood and Alun Davies should stand trial. Martin Jones and Peter Higson as well. Dafydd and Lucille were key figures in a criminal network, DGE Wood and Alun Davies systematically set out to destroy me over many years, Martin Jones harassed and threatened me much more recently and the disgusting Peter Higson is sitting there as Chair of the Betsi Board after a career of ignoring evidence of organised crime in the ‘services’ that he was managing.
There needs to be a trial.

I’ve come to the conclusion your completely correct about the regulators GMC, CQC, H&CPC etc. They are drawn from the “professions” and lack independence. I recently looked at the recent hearings for the Social Care Council Wales and yet again see frivolous petty cases against registerants and others were there has not been a public disclosure. The later seems to happen when it involves a public organisation rather than a private provider. One of the recent cases involved a manager with a private company using inappropriate language ““I have shit scarier things than you” and “I could put you to the floor”.https://socialcare.wales/hearings-content/james-alexander-garvey-8571

Here is another one that stinks of a trawling vendettahttps://socialcare.wales/hearings-content/nicola-jane-firzgerald-8635

Then you have ones like this which is obviously so seriously embarrassing for Cardiff City Council there is no information at allhttps://socialcare.wales/hearings-content/not-disclosed
In view of what I was recently told by a psych “Your a complainant”. It makes it quite clear what the problem is any dissent is taboo. If you raise concerns about senior powerful people you risk losing everything so no junior or middle ranking employee/registrant is going to zealously pursue any allegation that could jeopardise their career.
Regulatory positions are obtained by networking for example their is an organisation for all Directors of Social Services in Wales and they meet regularly.
This is even worse if your elected, trying to please all the people all of the time. today’s news illustrates this with Sarah Champion

http://news.sky.com/story/sarah-champion-resigns-from-labour-shadow-cabinet-over-sun-article-10991388
Ok the Sun is not the best paper to write an article about this unpalatable truth involving 1400 white girls.
It never good to stereotype but it if you look at this logically its obvious there could be a cultural problem were marriages are arranged for life and girls are considered a financial burden and as I was told years ago the weak link in maintaining cultural heritage religion and increasing family wealth.
What is always over looked is nature and evolution were all selfish by living since were stealing someone something else’s food, water, air etc In the Rotherham abuse case you have men from a religiously conservative sexually restrained culture surrounded by the temptations of a far more sexually unrestrained environment !!!

Equate this to the North Wales abuse and NHS/ LA/ medical environment. Closed networking, political correctness, regulatory codes, performance, financial security, low risk etc Low risk if you keep your head down and crawl up the slimy pole patronising of those two steps higher. If a social psychopath happens to be that person you will let him continue his clime. I stepped into to a Face book post were someone I know is a nice guy was getting “mobbed and trolled ” over statical comments the other day. Supporting him when everyone else was denigrating him turned it round resulting in an apology and quite an understandable reason when the poster explained his situation. Hence an other facet of human nature … the herd mentality it’s far easier to stand on the fence than confront extremism by yourself !!!!

The function of the regulatory bodies that you mention is undoubtedly to crush dissent and silence whistleblowers. The state of the ‘professions’ that they regulate and the degree of malpractice and misconduct that is routinely found within those professions are so grave that even a quick look at the cases of ‘misconduct’ that they are choosing to pursue demonstrates that there will be another reason for bring those charges, because the cases being pursued are undoubtedly not the cases of the most serious misconduct. I have previously blogged about a few of the cases that you’ve provided links to. I also devoted a post a few months ago to the people who sit on Social Care Council for Wales – that organisation is a joke, as are most of the people sitting on it. I have had much experience of the GMC – when I first encountered them I presumed that their hands were tied by their own narrow rules; the next time that I encountered them I presumed that they simply didn’t believe what I was telling them; then next time I presumed that they couldn’t act because at that time I didn’t have documentary evidence of my allegations. Since then my lawyer discovered a forged document in the possession of the GMC – namely a letter purporting to be from me. I have also found out that the GMC themselves knew that the people who I made representation about were variously sexually abusing patients, participating in criminal activities and were undoubtedly a danger to patients. The GMC is not simply a stuffy organisation inclined to believe doctors rather than patients, it is nakedly corrupt. I am still waiting for someone to explain how a forged letter allegedly from me found it’s way into their possession. The wrongdoing that I have documentary evidence of is so serious that it is easily enough to land a few people in prison. I’m here blogging about it with an increasingly large readership whilst the GMC et al pretend that I don’t exist! It is farcical. If the GMC had documentary evidence that patients had forged documents and perjured themselves in an attempt to convict innocent doctors you bet that there’d be a criminal trial. You are quite right that positions on those bodies are obtained by networking – that is the real purpose of the seminars, the conferences, the away days – no one learns or teaches anything at those events, it is about meeting people who can help you advance yourself. Minh Alexander, a psychiatrist who was dismissed for whistleblowing has written about ‘clubability’ being a key factor in gaining promotion in medicine.
As for Sarah Champion – I’ll be blogging about her resignation and the accompanying media comment later on today…

I am in touch with Professor Liz Davies of Islington Survivors. Islington Gazette seems interested in following up its recent Mayor Sandy reports with a piece about the 40+ child care deaths, in Hackney and Islington care, at the Beeches Ixworth Suffolk 1954 to 1972.

I am beginning to suspect the history is too complex for the investigative journo to run an easily digestible piece.

IMO this is because it seems it was Shadow DHSS minister Barbara Castle who “Put up” Islington MP O Halloran and Hackney MP Clinton Davis to ask their 1972 Beeches child deaths questions in the house.

Mrs Castle was already pursuing minister Sir Keith Joseph about the death of volunteer New Zealand Matron McGill at the Sue Ryder HQ Cavendish Suffolk and her criticisms of Sue Ryder appalling care standards.

I would take a stab that Mrs Castle in Dec 1971 was enthralled by Willy Brandt Nobel Prize acceptance speech. But that she was curious at the non mention that Brandt was working with Sue Ryder and her MI6 MP charity trustee Airey Neave to “Release” 1200 men purportedly held in German postwar internment.

On Feb 17th 1972, having been blanked by DHSS minister Sir Keith Joseph since the death of Matron McGill at Sue Ryder HQ Suffolk 22.1.72, A Mrs Walker visited New Zealand High Commission. And she got in contact with shadow minister Mrs Castle.

Certainly by April 1972 Mrs Castle would have known that Home Office lied to Matron McGill’s New Zealand Govt and that DHSS Minister Keith Joseph was covering up … IE Mrs Castle had DHSS Minister Keith Joseph and Home Secretary Reg Maudling in her sights. And Airey Neave and a chap called Sir Eric Berthoud.

What I would like to know is why Mrs Castle opened a new front involving Suffolk by putting O Halloran and Clinton Davis up to asking DHSS minister Keith Joseph about the long history of Beeches child care deaths.

Then why, when she became DHSS minister 1974 with advisers Jack Straw and Norman Warner, she sustained Keith Joseph’s cover up having conveniently lost all her Sue Ryder/Matron McGill Decd records ?

I also wonder if Newport MP Roy Hughes had told her about the Welsh RCS Det sgt who defied Special Branch threats and escalated inquiry into Leonard Cheshire and Sue Ryder Homes re GP death cert fraud and associated UK identity theft ? The Det sgt dying and copping a suicide verdict. MI5 taking the RCS case file.

The RCS discovery that Special Branch were snooping on and reporting to MI5 on police inquiry into Ryder and/or Cheshire has more implications. Not least Jimmy Savile abuse at Sue Ryder child hospice Leeds. Abuse in an MI5/Special Branch orchestrated unlawful police no go area. And no one spotted a thing !! Perhaps the spooks shoulda gone to Specsavers

Thanks for the new names and bits of info Richard. Have looked up Michael O Halloran who was MP for Islington before Jeremy Corbyn. O Halloran was an Irish Roman Catholic from a manual working background who became increasingly out of step with his constituents as Islington filled up with the ‘loony left’ and the well-heeled. He was a staunch anti-abortionist and on one occasion maintained that he had been beaten up by a group of female constituents (in 1977). He eventually joined the SDP. Whether he knew about the paedophile ring – or would even have had the capacity to act in the face of a problem like that – I do not know. The obituaries of his from the broadsheets are very sneering about his abilities. Clinton Davis was MP for Hackney Central 1970-83 and is still alive and in the Lords. He was given a peerage in 1990. Clinton-Davis was a lawyer with a north London practice. He was a Minister under Wilson and Callaghan and was one of the old guard whom Blair retained as a Minister when he was elected in 1997. I note that Blair had been involved with Labour politics in Hackney South and Shoreditch before he was elected for Sedgefield – I didn’t realise that, I thought he was on the fringes at Islington with Margaret Hodge et al. Blair tried to get elected onto Hackney Council in 1982 but failed. Blair only ever gave people jobs who were useful to him and a lot of the lawyers in Gov’t that he hung out with did some very questionable things. Blair won’t have made room for Clinton-Davis for no reason. I can’t find any clues though that Clinton-Davis had a key roles in concealing child abuse or abuse od disabled people. His interests were unrelated to either field – he was a European Commissioner, Minister of State for Trade under Blair, heavily involved in British Jewish life and Chair and then President of the British Refugee Council. I am wondering however if he was being rewarded for his silence of many years ago – until 1971 he was a Hackney Councillor and Chair of the Social Services Committee! So he will have known about the children and other people who were placed at risk…

Talking of Leeds, I presume that reason why the BBC made PR documentaries about St James’s Hospital in Leeds was Savile’s links there. I wonder about other possible links that Savile had in the Leeds/Yorkshire NHS – the Kerr/Haslam scandal happened there. Kerr and Haslam were two psychiatrists who raped and sexually exploited female patients for years and absolutely everybody knew about it – it was just like the North Wales Hospital. People who dared raise concerns were demoted or threatened with the sack. Kerr and Haslam were untouchable and it only ever all came to light about 15 yrs ago. I have blogged about it, but there must have been reasons unknown to me why they enjoyed as much protection as Dafydd and Lucille. I keep wondering if they were connected to Savile. One other thing – Dafydd had a Yorkshire/Leeds connection. He used to hold ‘clinics’ at the Queens Hotel in Leeds. Which is of course where Savile used to hang out. I’m sure that the wrongdoing in Leeds/Yorkshire NHS was far greater than has ever been made public.

Going off track a bit. Leeds General Infirmary in 1987 was where we stripped down one of the 3 hospital backup generators. On the way back to Kent with the genny rotor on the truck my colleague ex Petbow Generator Chief GMBU shop steward suddenly confessed to having orchestrated sabotage of the production welds. Rotor pack to shaft welds.

Petbow (Later Cummins) decided to protect market share and not issue a product warning/ recall. So I tried to make a crime compliant to Kent Police but Leeds Infirmary would not back it. In fact Petbow sent contractors to strip down the other two gennies at the hospital and they too had nobbled rotor pack weld failures. Petbow repaired free again. The hospital said they got their gennies fixed free so would not issue a warning to remaining NHS !

I included the company fraud and sabotage complaint in my warnings to Kent Police to review Deal Royal Marines Barracks security. They did not do this and on 22.9.89 a terrorist bomb killed 11 Royal Marines there. CID were seen stealing evidence at the bomb scene and overheard exempting Reliance Security from the bombing inquiry.

In 1998 at my request REME Corps Secretariat ran a records check on one of the Reliance guards (Police had never checked) and then REME called in MOD Police. The man had a false army record that Reliance had been duped by. He was also a long term associate of the alleged Petbow saboteur.

This, along with the IRA methods for defrauding benefits, was all in the 1997/98 Kent Police Authority call for inquiry and report that was suppressed by STRAW.

When Det sgt Davidson of Lawrence Inquiry was disciplined 1995 for moonlight bodyguard work on plod time and falsifying plod duty records. No inquiry into source of the bodyguard work. Was it International Bodyguard Assn who worked for Charlie Kray at Croydon an associate of Kenny Noye and Clifford Norris ? The IBA founded by unlawful use of Deal Royal MarinesBarracks 1976 to 1983. Actually keyholders for the barracks !! The IBA reported 1982 direct to MI5 by Brigadier Mike Harvey … oh and lookee here Kent Police the report to MI5 absent from the list of security reports in the Admiralty Board report to govt !!

The Area Commander SE Met in charge of Lawrence case and Det sgt Davidsons disciplinary 1995 was ex ACC Ops KENT Police Sir Ian Johnston. Mmmm one of the ACPO ranks with Condon in KENT when they failed to protect the Royal Marines at Deal and refused to record crime complaint of sabotage consistent with IRA terrorist plan the “Garland Plan”.

It never ends Sally. I am an officially called witness to National Crime Agency Stephen Lawrence case corruption inquiry. But they are happily constrained by their terms of reference. Which appear to be bring Home Sec head of Det sgt Davidson on a plate and/or cover everything else up including the conduct of the Lawrences and their advisors and Nation of Islam supporters and Mandela the wily old IRA ally.

It is bloody incredible isn’t it – people undoubtedly scrabble their way to the top by silently blackmailing others regarding their own wrongdoing. Going back to your NHS adventures for a minute – my own interest has been the concealing of patients harm/malpractice and research fraud, but the NHS seems to be riddled with corruption in all areas. The non-clinical managers in north Wales can best be described as a bunch of crooks, but I’ve seen and heard glimpses of theft and malpractice in other parts of the NHS as well. Years ago when I was doing an MSc at Hammersmith Hospital, some ‘workmen’ strolled into the doctors residences and told them that they’d been ordered to take all the TVs away for checking and if necessary repair. They were thieves and they nicked the lot. They must have had inside info to do that. A friend in the catering business who used to be based in London told me that huge quantities of grub and equipment was being stolen from St Georges Hospital catering dept, enough to run the businesses of the people who were stealing it all.
I’d like to know more about the corruption involved in the Lawrence case. It’s very sad, I was using Doreen Lawrence as an example of an honest member of the Lords! (By the way, I seem to remember that Doreen Lawrence was a social worker – social worker in London, she’ll have had dirt on plenty of people…) But as you said in a comment a few days ago, I’ve now been fighting for justice for 30 years – I have incriminating documents signed by the criminals own hands, I can demonstrate misconduct in public office, perjury and neglect so severe that patients died and wide-scale collusion with the GMC, the NMC, the CQC, the Mental Health Acts Commission and the involvement of corrupt expert witnesses and corrupt lawyers and judges! Has there been any inquiry? Of course not. Because I have consistently refused to enter into corrupt deals with anyone.

Some interesting research from Nigel Ward. As I have described above. Barbara Castle had the DHSS minister Keith Joseph and Home Secretary Reg Maudling by the gonads in the Matron McGill Decd case. Yet chose not to close but to open a new front. Using Clinton Davis and O’Halloran.

In 1975 Panorama did the expose’ of Labour discharging mental patients homeless to seaside resorts. Mrs Castle 1976 became aware, through my correspondence, that I had been a PC appointed HM Coroners Officer in the McGill Decd case 1972. That I had become a DHSS clerk after a period of temporary death in 1972. And that I wanted the 1972 DHSS ministerial file on the McGill Decd case. She must then have authorised Official Secrets Act charges against me along with Labour attorney general.

Her advisors were Straw and Warner as you know.

And it appears that the loophole being exploited by IRA to defraud benefits on a lucrative scale was not sealed up. In 1997 inquiry and report into this was called by Kent Police Authority. IE Inquiry into the role played by Home Sec Jack Straw and his Home Office adviser Warner when they were DHSS ministerial advisers. Jack Straw suppressed the inquiry called by KPA and thus corrupted MacPherson Inquiry being conducted by Kent Police. Unlawful Straw and Warner Judges in Own Cause and conspiracy to pervert justice.

Thanks for the link Richard, there’s a lot of useful articles within. I remember the Poulson and T Dan smith scandal but only vaguely, I was still in primary school when all that was going on, but I knew that it was huge and implicated cabinet ministers. Your link confirms my suspicions that something massive was going on in Yorkshire and that it was connected to child abuse and probably the Westminster Paedophile Ring. Not only did Kerr/Haslam happen in Yorkshire, not only did Dafydd Alun Jones have doings there but Yorkshire is also the stomping ground of Robert Kehoe who lies in expert witness reports. Kehoe was also Assistant Medical Director in Airedale when a scandal involving a nurse killing patients happened. So that’s why he’s ended up with a Harley Street practice and is Medical Director of Cygnet Healthcare then! EVERYTHING points to a barrel of shit in Yorkshire involving corrupt psychiatrists involved with concealing child abuse. I am also wondering if Dafydd got himself onto prime time BBC programmes like Kilroy via a Savile connection…

At the time black racist activist Lee Jasper arranged for the Lawrences to meet visiting Mandela two weeks after Stephen Lawrence was killed, weren’t real white neo Nazi mercenaries preparing (In Kent ?) to attack transitional Mandela Regime ? In 1994 there was a Desmond Tutu Commission of Inquiry into the mercenary attack. And in 1995 Tim Rayment of Sunday Times dug up the bodies of some of their black South African victims. Tim turned in Tyrone Chadwick. But also with Tim were the vile child rapist Parker twins of Nuneaton who were mercenaries with Ronnie Deuster and Chadwick. Somehow without passports Chadwick and the Parkers got back to UK escaping South Africa custody.

So they got back to UK in 1995 and successfully defied extradition. Who had the contract to train and brief the mercenaries ? The paramilitary live fire training front International Bodyguards Assn had some sort of contact or contract with a group “South Africa Assault Scouts” Yes the IBA who had a client Charlie Kray at Croydon.

But this year I reported new information (to me) to Kent Chief constable. The mercs were briefed to go to Fort Hare Uni for expert support to mount an eco attack against Mandela regime.

At the time the former senior eco systems lecturer at Fort Hare, your Bangor Uni colleague Dr Shaun Russell, was with British Council. Tragically in 1996 Dr Russell’s wife and daughter were murdered in the horrific Chillenden hammer murders Kent. In spite of the 1997 Kent Police Authority call for inquiry and report re Deal Barracks, IBA, Merc attack on Mandela etc Kent Plod never flagged this history up as a line of inquiry in either the Chillenden murders or the murder of Ken Speakman retired MI5 stalwart of the paramilitary styled 6th Thanet Gun Range.

This is the hardy perennial pattern. Kent Plod feckup. Deal Bombing. Then they cover up venomously. Then consequences of the coverup manifest and then they cover up more.

Look at the number of ex Kent ACPO ranks who held sway over or influence with Lawrence case. Condon, Johnston, O Connor, Ayling and Phillips. Five of the bent Kent coverup merchants.

With over 20 black victims in South Africa of real neo Nazi thugs … look at yer Doreen Lawrence and yer Ros Howells and yer Lee Jasper and his mates the IRA supportive SWP. Suddenly over 20 black lives didn’t matter at all !!! It was inconvenient to their propaganda cause based on hijacking the Lawrence case.

The bus stop in Well Hall Road had been scene of a number of recent gang fights. Even if Lawrences blood did get on Dobson’s jacket (which I doubt) was it from an earlier fight ?

In fact when Mandela applied unlawful political pressure for arrests two weeks after the killing it was Det sgt Davidson leading the team who arrested Dobson. And he told the Dobsons he knew it was not Dobsons jacket in Well Hall Road in April 93. Had he seen the CCTV footage Met kept concealed for the next 24 years. He told the Dobsons that house dust forensics would make the defence. But back at the nick Dobsons jacket had the defence forensics dust brushed off.

At the private prosecution by the heavily backed Lawrences the matter of Davidsons disciplinary was concealed. mmm breach of adverse disclosure law by the “Fighter for Justice” Doreen and Co Met did not tell CPS and that means the CPS also broke disclosure law at the 2012 prosecution.

A demoted Met sgt admitted unsealing and tampering with evidence but was excused giving evidence in 2012 because he thought the shame would make him suicidal. The leader of the miracle blood forensics on Dobsons jacket was Roy Green pretty much discredited over his blood spatter evidence to Dr Kelly inquiry.

But Doreen calls it justice. Her friend Mr Straw strangled out justice for 11 Royal Marines and over twenty black victims of mercenaries in Mandela Regime. All so the propaganda could continue of the innocent black youth killed by white racists and his murder investigated by white racist officers etc etc ad nauseum. Emphasise Stephen was a good student and keen to become an architect (Lee Jaspers sell to middle England).

Who were the other four blacks in Lawrences gang at Lewisham that day ? Was one from a family with a member now serving 35 years for drugs related murder ? And just try asking and the roof falls on you. Was Doreen’s adviser Ros Howells an associate of Anjem Choudhary ? No answer but loads of resentment at daring to ask. Was that how the violent nation of islam climbed aboard the Lawrence roadshow to attack white suspects and the police ?

“Institutionalised Racism” was a red herring concept used in group psychology research on police trainees 1971 to test for gullibility, malleability and compliance. It is a myth that the hijacked Lawrence case was used to promote to bogus reality via mass hysteria as masochistic middle class whites queued up to bathe in the mythical waters of collective white guilt.

All this info re the Lawrence case is new to me – but Jack Straw would be capable of using anyone and anything to further his own ends and cover up crap somewhere else. I’d be interested to know not only how his son ended up leading the stay in Europe campaign before the recent referendum when he was barely out of nappies, but how he bagged a CBE for being on the losing side. Which reminds me – a few hours ago I read the pearls of wisdom of a Joe Dromey, senior research fellow at the IPPR. Would that be the son of Jack Dromey and one Harriet Harman, the Harriet who believes that she is oppressed because she never became PM? The IPPR certainly have some interesting recruitment practices – I applied for a job as a research fellow with them a few years ago but I didn’t even receive an acknowledgement. Odd – after all, I was well-qualified in terms of what they were asking for and although competition for such positions is stiff, I have never actually not even received an acknowledgement in response to a job application before. Could it have been anything to do with me appearing in the media critiquing New Labour’s HE and mental health policies and naming Alistair Campbell???? WHOOPS! If only my mum was Harriet…
I do remember the case of Dr Shaun Russell’s family being attacked in Chillenden though. Shaun always struck me as amazing, what had happened was dreadful but he was able to appear in the media with no bitterness or self-pity and talk rather more intelligently than anyone else about the hopeless ‘care’ system that had wrecked the life of the man who was convicted of the attack on his family. I have always suspected that Michael Stone was innocent though – and a lot of other people suspect that as well, although I think people didn’t dare say it in public at the time out of respect for Shaun and Josie. I met Shaun once whilst I was out walking in Snowdonia and we got talking about the gross shortcomings of the mental health services, but I didn’t discuss Michael Stone with him, as I hadn’t met him before and I guessed that he was probably fed up of being asked about the case. I know that in an attempt to conceal their mistreatment of Michael Stone the mental health services lied to the media – when Shaun mentioned this, they lied again, denying that they had lied and implying that Shaun had lied instead. They are beyond belief.

Kent Police visited me and left via my front yard where I split logs. My log splitting hammer went missing. Five minutes later a detective from Chillenden murder was at my door saying someone had claimed I matched the efit. I understand Kent Plod played the same intimidation trick on another complainant against police. Nick a hammer and hint it can be dabbed with DNA evidence.

The detectives then went to my wife’s place of work saying loudly her husband is a suspect in Chillenden murder.

When a copy of our phone bill came through I saw what phone calls were made on the day of the murder. One was to our doc. So I phoned surgery and found I was attending an urgent copd exacerbation appointment at time of murder. So my solicitor said don’t tell plod let’s see how far they try to pursue this. But I never heard from plod again.

My friend Bill who closed down the gun range adjoining his property in 95 he had an abuse of process action 2010 against Kent Plod. An astonished court heard how his son had been stopped and issued document producers 80 times a year for 15 years. During which both his son and his daughter (A Pfizer scientist) faced malicious prosecutions all thrown out on Judge directions. Judges rollicking CID in open court for conspiring with known criminals to bring malicious charges against Bill’s family.

While this was going on senior Kent Plod had mocked Bill “We couldn’t get away with this if you were black especially if your name was fecking Lawrence”.

A standard question in a murder inquiry is if anyone might wish to cause harm. The mercenary attack should have been flagged up under this category for two reasons

(1) Fort Hare Uni

(2) Bill had followed 6th Thanet Range users prior to 1995 to Ringleton Manor which was owned by Adscene millionaire Harry Lambert. There he saw vehicles from the various businesses that used 6th Thanet Range. Some sort of meeting of range users was going on. A few hundred yards from the later Chillenden murder scene.

Bill copped a malicious warrant raid in about 1996. 16 officers ostensibly looking for stolen car radios. But in fact seizing a number of bags of misfires and empty cases Bill had picked up on his land … evidence that prolific 9 mm fire had taken place on land adjoining the quarry gun range. This would have been the uzis in use at range including by the squads of unidentified Saudis.

The Army Colour sgt who saw off duty Kent Plod training the Saudis at the range ? He got a phone call from a member of Kent Police Authority ” If you want a political future in Thanet after leaving Army be aware you are talking to the wrong people about the gun range. Meaning Richard Card”

When the ex colour sgt tried to make crime complaints he was visited by Thanet plod telling him his wife had just been arrested for trying to snatch a baby. Quid pro quo he shuts up about the range and charges against his wife go away. So ex Colour sgt shut up.

The Pc Coroners Officer who saw senior CID steal evidence at 1989 Deal Barracks terrorist bomb scene. Discreditted by being given counselling and an early retirement. A Pc member of 6th Thanet Gun Range tried to raise concerns… same story counselling sessions and discredited.

Here the victim waived anonymity. You see Kenneth wangled an alibi get out ? Well what sort of inquiry did Warks plod make for CPS when Walter Bealby for Kenneth Parker declared an alibi defence ?

So I wrote to the judge after the case. In June 1979 50 lbs of gelignite was dug up next to a railway line at Nuneaton. So wasn’t Kenneth already remanded to custody ? And what happened to application to Attorney General under Explosives Substances Act 1885 ? And if he was in custody before June 1979, a time IRA were using a helicopter to survey quarries in area suitable for explosives thefts, his time to parole had started ticking ? And at one third sentence to parole he was in fact free in 1980 during the window of the charges for child rape. PLus he was definitely free by New Year 1980/81 because he was present when his twin stabbed and wounded a man.

The Judge did not reply but directed that the issues I raised should be addressed by CPS and CCRC. Next I heard Kenneth Parker was reported dead in France !

And it wasn’t just Kenneth Parkers custody and parole and probation records going missing for a 1979 offence Nuneaton. A far more notorious case happened there too … I will fetch a linkie which will interest you re secure hospitals.